YET AGAIN I am taken back to my childhood days and how many of us boys remember waking up on Christmas morning to find a Hornby train set or a Meccano set or both under the Christmas tree? Well I ...

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In the late 1980s I was responsible for a 17 per cent shareholding in what was then Hornby Hobbies, the quoted group that sold Hornby trains. I used to travel down to Margate to see the factory where ...